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2 months agoI completely agree with you on all of those points. The present Venezuela invasion is totally heinous in my book.
Acting like Xi invading North Korea is the same thing as VZ is where I totally disagree with you.
Assuming the Chinese were to make a modicum of effort to prevent mass famine, I see the possible humanitarian boon as outweighing the international-relations consequences. Or to frame it differently, the crimes against humanity that North Korea has committed give China a valid casus belli.
The prime meridian roughly separates the two major clusters of land mass on the planet, which have undergone wildly different patterns of human settlement and development.
The line itself is arbitrary, but the concept of the hemispheres as shorthand geopolitical labels for these geographic clusters is very much not arbitrary.